Advantages of Power Point in Teaching

Advantages of Power Point in Teaching

PowerPoint is a presentation program created by Robert Gaskins and Dennis Austin in 1987. It was initially designed to provide visuals for group presentations within business organizations but has come to be very widely used in many other fields among which the education found it a blessing.

Within a nutshell, PowerPoint is an application program of presentation that is found in Microsoft Office. It is a well known, versatile and easy tool to use. In is now very much common in schools, colleges and universities…

It captures the learner’s attentions and helps keep students in and with the lesson.

PowerPoint encourages and supports teaching learning process by facilitating the material presentation.

It performs varieties of manipulations, such as editing text before printing it out, and the teacher can add new slides for adding new materials.

This program is also advantages in the sense that the icons used are very simple because they are similar with those in the Microsoft Word. In this way, the users can create an instruction of language without studying this program previously.

PowerPoint is also fun to be applied and fun to watch. It is not hard to learn in. PowerPoint allows the teacher to reflect on a lesson and make any changes, and which can create the good lessons and are being able to print them out. Our students love watching power point presentation in class. moreover they learn better with this tool. Now a days its not necessary to get real experiment with lots of materials in small classroom rather a power point can do all these in one show.

As a result using PowerPoint improve the students’ learning motivation, increasing authentic materials for study, encouraging interaction between the teacher and the student.

Teacher can create interactive presentations containing text, art, animation, and audio and video elements through PowerPoint.  It is probably the best known presentation graphics program available.

Old-school visual aids such as chalkboards and hand drawn illustrations would be time consuming while PowerPoint presentation can be used with ease and faster. Therefore, change for better and effective gadgets. 

Date: 13/9/17